"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Saturday Afternoon Quotage
"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."
--Wayne Dyer
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
--Marcus Aurelius
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Friday, December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Thursday Afternoon Quotage
"It makes no difference what method you use to clear your mind. The idea is to make your mind quiescent. To make your mind still and calm. When your mind is still and calm you solve the problem. For all the methods, self-inquiry, breath control, yoga, everything is to quiet the mind. Use whatever method suits you. You can become the witness to your thoughts. You can watch your thoughts as they go by. When you become the witness and you do not interfere with the thought process, the thoughts automatically disappear by themselves, until they dissipate entirely. You can ask yourself: “To whom comes these thoughts?” What ever method you use is fine. But by all means do something to still the mind. And again when the mind is still and quiet, everything will take care of itself. The secret is to quiet the mind. Your real nature is self-realization. When the mind is stilled, you just return to your real nature, to what you always were."
--Robert Adams
"Come home to yourself. Observe yourself. That’s why I said earlier that self-observation is such a delightful and extraordinary thing. After a while you don’t have to make any effort, because, as illusions begin to crumble, you begin to know things that cannot be described. It’s called happiness. Everything changes and you become addicted to awareness.
There’s the story of the disciple who went to the master and said, Could you give me a word of wisdom? Could you tell me something that would guide me through my days. It was the master’s day of silence, so he picked up a pad. It said, Awareness. When the disciple saw it, he said, This is too brief. Can you expand on it a bit? So the master took back the pad and wrote, Awareness, awareness, awareness. The disciple said, Yes, but what does it mean? The master took back the pad and wrote, Awareness, awareness, awareness means awareness.
That’s what it is to watch yourself. No one can show you how to do it, because he would be giving you a technique, he would be programming you. But watch yourself. When you talk to someone, are you aware of it or are you simply identifying with it? When you got angry with somebody, were you aware that you were angry or were you simply identifying with your anger? Later, when you had the time, did you study your experience and attempt to understand it? Where did it come from? What brought it on? I don’t know of any other way to awareness. You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You don’t change. But when you understand it, it changes."
--Anthony De Mello
"Come home to yourself. Observe yourself. That’s why I said earlier that self-observation is such a delightful and extraordinary thing. After a while you don’t have to make any effort, because, as illusions begin to crumble, you begin to know things that cannot be described. It’s called happiness. Everything changes and you become addicted to awareness.
There’s the story of the disciple who went to the master and said, Could you give me a word of wisdom? Could you tell me something that would guide me through my days. It was the master’s day of silence, so he picked up a pad. It said, Awareness. When the disciple saw it, he said, This is too brief. Can you expand on it a bit? So the master took back the pad and wrote, Awareness, awareness, awareness. The disciple said, Yes, but what does it mean? The master took back the pad and wrote, Awareness, awareness, awareness means awareness.
That’s what it is to watch yourself. No one can show you how to do it, because he would be giving you a technique, he would be programming you. But watch yourself. When you talk to someone, are you aware of it or are you simply identifying with it? When you got angry with somebody, were you aware that you were angry or were you simply identifying with your anger? Later, when you had the time, did you study your experience and attempt to understand it? Where did it come from? What brought it on? I don’t know of any other way to awareness. You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You don’t change. But when you understand it, it changes."
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Tuesday Afternoon Quotage
"True friends stab you in the front."
--Oscar Wilde
"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room."
--Marc Hack
"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."
"Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room."
Monday, December 10, 2012
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Sunday Afternoon Quotage
"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
--Thomas A. Edison
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
--Socrates
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
--Henry David Thoreau
"It’s not my job to please all of you. And if I make it my job to please all or any of you, I do a disservice to you and I do a disservice to me."
--Abraham Hicks
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
"It’s not my job to please all of you. And if I make it my job to please all or any of you, I do a disservice to you and I do a disservice to me."
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